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#23685
Complete Question Explanation
Must be True-SN. The correct answer choice is (C)
Terry states that if you want a decent job, you should go to college. Basically:
That is an attack on the conditional:
Since you are asked to identify Mark's interpretation, you should focus on his error.
Answer choice (A): The idea that one can train for a job at many places other than college would not help explain why Mark stated that one can go to college for many reasons other than getting a job, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (B): This statement is basically a more definite form of Terry's conditional: "Job >→College." Mark's error is a complete reversal, not one of extremes, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. In responding that Terry is wrong because there are in fact many reasons other than a job to go to college, Mark implies that he believes Terry proposed that getting a decent job is the only reason to go to college.
Answer choice (D): Mark's response regards whether there are other things than jobs relevant to college, but this incorrect response regards whether things other than colleges are relevant to jobs.
Answer choice (E): Mark's response concerns whether people who go to college are all there for jobs, but this incorrect response concerns whether all people who want decent jobs go to college.
As a note, this stimulus does contain potential cause-effect propositions, but the fact is that it is much better to discuss the stimulus in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, because Mark's reply is based on a Mistaken Reversal.
Must be True-SN. The correct answer choice is (C)
Terry states that if you want a decent job, you should go to college. Basically:
- Job
somewhat necessary college
That is an attack on the conditional:
- College Job
Since you are asked to identify Mark's interpretation, you should focus on his error.
Answer choice (A): The idea that one can train for a job at many places other than college would not help explain why Mark stated that one can go to college for many reasons other than getting a job, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (B): This statement is basically a more definite form of Terry's conditional: "Job >→College." Mark's error is a complete reversal, not one of extremes, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice. In responding that Terry is wrong because there are in fact many reasons other than a job to go to college, Mark implies that he believes Terry proposed that getting a decent job is the only reason to go to college.
Answer choice (D): Mark's response regards whether there are other things than jobs relevant to college, but this incorrect response regards whether things other than colleges are relevant to jobs.
Answer choice (E): Mark's response concerns whether people who go to college are all there for jobs, but this incorrect response concerns whether all people who want decent jobs go to college.
As a note, this stimulus does contain potential cause-effect propositions, but the fact is that it is much better to discuss the stimulus in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, because Mark's reply is based on a Mistaken Reversal.